The Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) (2021 Act) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2022 No. 63 (C. 9)

Licensing

The Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) (2021 Act) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022

Made

24th February 2022

The Department for Communities(1) makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 47(2) of the Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021(2).

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) (2021 Act) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022.

Appointed Day

2.  The day appointed for the coming into operation of the provisions of the Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 specified in the Schedule is 6th April 2022.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 24th February 2022.

(L.S.)

Anthony Carleton

A senior officer of the Department for Communities

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Provisions of the Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 coming into operation on 6th April 2022.

Provisions of the Act	Subject Matter
Section 7	Major events
Section 9	Places of public entertainment: inclusion of cinemas
Section 10	Licence for off-sales
Section 11(9) and (10) only so far as is necessary for the purpose of section 14(4) and (5)	Sales and consumption of intoxicating liquor in local producer’s premises
Section 12	Requirement for off-licence
Section 13	Removal of requirement for children’s certificate, etc.
Section 14	Underage functions
Section 15	Private functions
Section 16	Delivery of intoxicating liquor to young persons
Section 17	Restaurants and guest houses: notice displaying licence conditions
Section 22	Occasional licences: conditions
Section 26	Body corporate: change of directors
Section 28	Sporting clubs
Section 34	Major events
Section 35	Removal of requirement for children’s certificate, etc.
Section 36	Underage functions
Section 37	Private functions
Section 38	Young people prohibited from bars
Section 40	Restrictions relating to advertisements
The following paragraphs of Schedule 1 and section 45(1) in so far as it relates to them – paragraphs 2(2)(a), 2(b) so far as relating to section 10, 2(2)(c) and (e), 2(3), 3, 4, 6, 7(2)(b), 10, 12(b) and (c), 13, 15(2), 17, 18 and 20.	Minor and consequential amendments
In Schedule 2 the following entries and section 46 in so far as it relates to them –	Repeals
In the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996: In Article 2(2) – (a) the definition of “children’s certificate”.
Article 34(1)(g).
Article 58(5)(b) and the following “and”.
Article 58(7), (8) and (9).
In Article 58(10)(a), the words “or (7)”.
In Article 58(11), the words “or (8)”.
Article 59.
Article 60(5)(a).
Article 76D(3) and (4).
In Schedule 1, in paragraph 7, the words “or for a children’s certificate” and “or, as the case may be, the children’s certificate”.
In Schedule 9 –
(a) in the title, the words “or 59”,
(b) in paragraph 1, the words “or 59”, and
(c) paragraph 4(d).
In the Registration of Clubs (Northern Ireland) Order 1996:
In Article 2(2), the definition of “children’s certificate”.
Article 32(4)(b) and the following “and”.
Article 32(6), (7) and (8).
In Article 32(9)(a), the words “or (6)”.
In Article 32(9)(b), the words “or (8)”.
In Article 32(10), the words “or (7)”.
In Article 32(11), the words “or (7)”.
Article 33.
In Schedule 2, paragraph 5.
Schedule 5.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into operation certain provisions of the Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021. These provisions relate to young people in licensed premises at underage functions and private functions, delivery of alcohol to young persons, and the removal of the requirement for children’s certificates. Also included in this Order are provisions which relate to requirements for off-sales for remote sale of alcohol, requirements for restaurants and guest houses to display licence conditions, and conditions on occasional licences.

This Order also brings into operation new provisions relating to the sale of alcohol for consumption off the premises in respect of local producers of alcoholic drinks.

This Order also brings into operation new provisions which include cinemas in the definition of a place of public entertainment, for the purpose of applying for a liquor licence.

This Order also brings into operation provisions relating to major events and requirements on corporate bodies.

The Order further brings into operation, in respect of registered clubs, provisions relating to young people on the premises, underage events, private functions, removal of requirement for children’s certificates, use of grounds of sporting clubs, restrictions relating to advertising and major events.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDERS

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021 have been brought into operation by a commencement order made before the date of this Order:

Provision	Date of Commencement	S.R. No.
Section 1	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 2	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 3	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 4	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 5	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 6	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 8	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 21	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 23	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 24	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 27	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 30	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 31	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 32	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 33	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 42	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Section 43	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Schedule 1 (partially)	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)
Schedule 2 (partially)	1 October 2021	2021 No. 247 (C. 9)

(1)

Formerly the Department for Social Development; see 2016 c. 5 (N.I.), s. 1.(7)

(2)

2021 c. 7 (N.I.)